ATTITUDE Quotes from Doug Lang
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude is Gratitude
Not to put all your eggs in one basket, use other talents and skills
Take positives from failure, failure can be a great learning tool. Embrace failure
One door Shuts another one will open however sometimes you just have … [Read more...]

Developing the FUTURE and Beyond
The Vision
1) Provide an ‘advanced learning’ environment for your junior high performance group.
2) Develop Future Senior players of your Football Club.
(Example, This years Senior Premiership side had 8 ex-juniors)
3) Develop ‘leaders’ to assist in the development of their own respective
teams.
4) Program will hopefully assist in the … [Read more...]

Mission Statement
“To encourage and nurture the development of your Football Clubs High Performance junior players both on and off the field and to assist in their transition from Junior to Senior Footballer.”
Squad
Players aged 15-19 years – Selected from the
junior grades Maximum squad of 25 selected with recommendation
From Junior Coaches.
Director of coaching to organize … [Read more...]

AFL grand final Fifty 50 years on (1967) another Premiership, 37 years on a glorious day for the Richmond Football Club.
AFL grand final: Richmond earns a famous victory, beating Adelaide by 48 points to end a 37-year drought … [Read more...]

For the Love of Football in our community.
Former rival teams unite to win fairytale football league grand final in Victoria
Kangas football team celebrate win with trophy
RELATED STORY: Rival country football teams unite to survive.
Two rival football teams in Victoria's Mallee region, that joined forces last year in an unpalatable amalgamation, have beaten the odds by winning this year's … [Read more...]

What more can we say? Hawthorn Football Club are very lucky to have a player on the ground like this. The multiple Norm Smith Medals probably indicate that as well though of course. Watch the video below, share it your team if they missed it. Communication is the key. You should have leaders re-enforcing the message all over the ground. Motivation, Direction and encouragement.
Do you have … [Read more...]

Tackling – How are you coaching it? Are you?
With the increasing fear of concussion and injury now becoming more apparent with the increase in medical knowledge, the fear of parents to place their children at risk and the rise in popularity of other sports without such issues – not to mention the now almost enforced strategy of deploying a press or zone defence at the top levels – tackling is … [Read more...]

COMMUNICATION
Speaking from the platform of Coaching
Skill required is, Understanding and being Understood
Every day, in all sorts of ways, (Sports Club, School, Work, Socially, Coaching etc etc) we need to communicate with others.
In football terms communication is SPOKEN
Sometimes communication is WRITTEN Team Reports.
Sometimes (communication) the message is sent via BODY … [Read more...]

Over the past few weeks studying AFL games I believe we are seeing subtle changes which WERE ingrained previously in our football makeup.
What do we see,
Players continue to give ball off quickly, very little or no thought of the position their team mate is in (understanding it’s HOT in the packs) then they continue to run to the next spot to receive. (this is why, players are now racking … [Read more...]